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Letters from 29 December 208 to 4 January 2009

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'For I will consider my cat Jeoffrey'

The pain on the loss of a cat or any other of God's creatures who have accompanied us on our earthly journey is a reflection of the gift and love they have shown to us.

Animals can teach us about unreserved love and acceptance, and we are blessed to know those God-given gifts, however they are taught us.

WJ Arnold, PhD
St Mark's Church
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CANADA
29 December 2008

Thanks for the many readers who sent private email to Cynthia expressing their sympathy on the loss of her cat or sharing some quite extraordinary cat-once-lost-now-found stories of their own.

Earlier letters

We launched our 'Letters to AO' section on 11 May 2003. All published letters are in our archives.